Thread: HELP!

Yes you can pop them out and reseat them. Just make sure the computer is powered off. You don't even need to take them all the way out.
It can happen if a monitor gets plugged/unplugged or a wire gets jiggled. Especially if you don't have them secured with the screw or whatever your case uses.

I don't know if a bad SLI bridge or bridge connection could cause the POST error but I would check that too to make sure it's seated.

If none of that works, remove the secondary card and run the computer with a single card. If that works shut it down and swap the cards to see if it works. If both work then it's either the SLI bridge or a VGA/motherboard issue.

But if your friend is gonna help you tomorrow and you're not 100% comfortable messing with it, I'd just let him do it.

Yea...if I was working on a car it would be better. I'll leave the CPU's to the tech guys

Originally Posted by ZoranDaWicked

Yea...if I was working on a car it would be better. I'll leave the CPU's to the tech guys

Lol I'm the opposite. I loathe working on cars.

Originally Posted by grayman

Yes you can pop them out and reseat them. Just make sure the computer is powered off. You don't even need to take them all the way out.
It can happen if a monitor gets plugged/unplugged or a wire gets jiggled. Especially if you don't have them secured with the screw or whatever your case uses.

I don't know if a bad SLI bridge or bridge connection could cause the POST error but I would check that too to make sure it's seated.

If none of that works, remove the secondary card and run the computer with a single card. If that works shut it down and swap the cards to see if it works. If both work then it's either the SLI bridge or a VGA/motherboard issue.

You can just remove the SLI Bridge and see if that solves the problem before removing any of the cards. They will still operate independently without the bridge.

Originally Posted by HeavyG

You can just remove the SLI Bridge and see if that solves the problem before removing any of the cards. They will still operate independently without the bridge.

Ah yes. Not sure why I didn't think of that.

I got really lucky. The IT guy charged me only $45. He took almost an hour pulling plugs etc. Finally found out that the front USB port on my machine was broken and the wire created a short. Anyway, nothing needed to be replaced! I'm up and running as we speak!

Thanks all!

Strange that it was generating that POST light error.

Glad you got it sorted out. Sometimes shorts can cause some interesting bugs. I had a mouse that was shorting out that was causing other USB devices on my board to stop working.